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Publication Review

Title: Practice of Low Impact Development
Author: HUD, 2003
File: Free Book, PDF 3.31 KB, 131 pages
Audience: Written as a manual for designers, developers and builders interested in sustainable development.

Review
A practical guide to residential development that simultaneously conserves and protects natural resource systems and reduces infrastructure costs. Covers storm water management, waste water, circulation or streets and parking, lot layout and design.

Issues covered include:

• Introduction: explanation of low impact development or LID
• Benefits of low impact development
• Goals of low impact development
• Challenges to using low impact development
• Planning issues
• Site design
• Storm water management, benefits
• Conventional approaches to storm water management
• Alternatives to conventional systems, infiltration systems, dry wells, bioretention, level spreaders, filtering systems, wetland systems
• Alternative conveyance systems
• Rain barrels & cisterns
• Waste water treatment, environmental, cost, and regulatory issues
• Conventional approaches to wastewater treatment
• Alternatives to conventional systems
• How to determine what will work for a given area
• Sand filters
• Mound systems
• Trickling filters
• Evapotranspiration
• Low pressure pipe
• Aerobic systems
• Proprietary systems
• Circulation, environmental and cost issues
• Conventional approaches to circulation, streets and parking
• Alternative approaches to circulation
• Alternative paving materials
• Alternative lot shapes
• Additional resources
• Glossary
• Examples and case studies
  

Detail drawings include:

• Storm water infiltration trench details
• Dry well detail
• Typical bioretention area details
• Level spreader detail
• Grass filter strip details
• Exfiltration trench & dry swale details
• Storm water wetlands details
• Rain barrel water retention diagram
• Waste water intermittent sand filter detail
• Recirculating sand filter diagram
• Mound system detail
• Trickling filter system schematic
• Evapotranpiration bed detail
• Low pressure pipe system diagram
• Street layout diagrams
• Queuing street vs traditional street diagram
• Alternative lot design diagrams
• Photos of example projects

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